Laurel playing in her kitchen

Here is Laurel pretending to eat in her play kitchen... num..numm..nummy. This is what she says when she is pretending to eat something. You can also see her "cooking" in her kitchen.

Sedona

Last weekend we took a trip to Sedona, AZ. Chris worked on Friday and Laurel and I had a great day exploring Sedona. We went to a wonderful park where she enjoyed going down the slide over and over and over and she was loving the swing. We also spent many hours playing in the pool. She loved the pool. She continues to be non-stop....and is always going, going, going. She enjoyed exploring the gardens at the hotel where we were staying. She had an unfriendly encounter with a cactus. She said, "ouch" and for the rest of the vacation she would look at her hand and say, "cactus" with a pained look.
Oh yes and one of her new favorite tricks is sticking out her tongue. She recently discovered that it was very funny to stick it out and to try and lick me.
I continue to be amazed by her vocabulary: avocado, broccoli, noodles, outside and her newest word--cactus. We were shopping in the Co-op the other day and she was pointing to all the food and naming them as we strolled by.

More Easter photos

Happy Easter

This past weekend we celebrated Easter with Laurel. Unfortunately the weather was not so good, but despite the weather we had a little Easter egg hunt with a few children from the neighborhood. I should mention that all the children were under the age of 3....so there were lots of instructions about how to actualy find the eggs and then how to place them into the basket with out opening each one! It was pretty funny. We also dyed eggs and Laurel loved that project. We wore our matching spring aprons that my mom sent us and Laurel had a ball rolling and smashing the eggs in the bowls of dye. You can see the repercussions of that...GREEN HANDS.

Here is Laurel strategically placing her paint bottles. Watch the way she placed the blue bottle.

The new Picasso

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Laurel and I have been very busy. I just made a large online shopping trip to Discount School Supplies. I use to use this site all the time when I was teaching, but now it has proven to come in handy with Laurel too. She is having so much fun exploring with art and loves to try new things. The other day she painted for the first time and loved it. She was not hesitant at all...although she didn't like it when she got the paint on her hands. Today she used some bingo bottle to do some painting. She enjoyed organizing the bottles more than she did painting with them. Maybe tomorrow? So here are a few pictures of Laurel's masterpieces and her using the bingo bottles to paint. They are pretty much mess free and easy to use; even for a 15 month old.